Node would get stuck and required restart if DDL was performed after FLUSHTABLESWITHREADLOCK. Bug fixed #1265656.

Galera provider pause has been fixed to avoid potential deadlock with replicating threads.

Default value for binlog_format is now ROW. This is done so that Percona XtraDB Cluster is not started with wrong defaults leading to non-deterministic outcomes like crash. Bug fixed #1243228.

During the installation of percona-xtradb-cluster-garbd-3.x package, Debian tries to start it, but as the configuration is not set, it would fail to start and leave the installation in iF state. Bug fixed #1262171.

Runtime checks have been added for dynamic variables which are Galera incompatible. Bug fixed #1262188.